Mayor Frank Jackson has ordered a major overhaul of the way police have patrolled Cleveland's streets for more than 60 years.

Beginning May 5, officers will be assigned to specific neighborhoods rather than zones that include chunks of several neighborhoods. The new approach also will put at least one squad car in each neighborhood around the clock.

"We're really reinventing the neighborhood police," Jackson said this afternoon in an interview with Plain Dealer reporters and editors. "And we'll continue reinventing."

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